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Here you are. Hello. I’m a writer and researcher, a photographer and Lego tragic (please – don’t judge, we all have our wiggy attributes).

I’m a digital immigrant and I’m constantly learning everything I can about digitally things, and then some more stuff, and more stuff, and so on. Writers can’t help themselves when it comes to stuff, and they tend to share the stuff they’ve learned in various forms.

Furthermore, and digitally speaking, there’s no going back, Grasshopper, so let us carry ourselves forward by engaging with transient total focus to get the jobs done.

[The grasshopper, by the way, is a symbol of happiness, abundance, creativity, and generally good things across a number of cultures so it can’t do us any harm to so name ourselves – it’s an invitation to the universe to send us light matter as opposed to the dark, oozy stuff].

comics, at Last Cat On Mars, which manage to combine my love of Lego and photography with captions and dialogue.

I’ll shamelessly plug my novels and other assorted creative productions from time to time, and since there’s no time like the present, please check the following out and then give me all your money:

Haiku With A Twist: The Mindful Art of Catku, Foodku, and GardenkuIs a compilation of feline, gastronomic, and nature zenkus and verandakus from my previously published books, The Mindful Art of Verandaku, Volumes One and Two, and Zenku 365. It’s available in Kindle format, so click the image and get yourself a copy. You won’t regret it, grasshopper.

Zenku 365is a year’s worth of Zenkus, teeny tiny three-liners without the 5-7-5 constraint of Verandakus. There are bonus Zenkus for leap years, and just because. Also, a micro workshop, plus selected illustrations throughout the text. Available in paperback and on Kindle. You know you want one, and you want it now. How could you resist this beautiful cover, not mention the remarkable content:

My Master’s in Creative Writing resulted in a thesis which combined a creative and an academic component. Recently, I published the two under one cover, and The Women Come & Go and The Women Came & Went is the result. It’s now available in both paperback and ebook formats from, yes, you guessed well, friend, Amazon:

My fourth novel, Summon Up The Blood, a thriller that moves very speedily from Bogota to Beijing, and from River City to London, is now available from Amazon.

My very first novel, A Mortality Tale, was republished by UQP in paperback after it was initially published by Allen and Unwin, and is now available on Amazon Kindle as well. It was shortlisted for both the Australian/Vogel and Miles Franklin Literary Awards. Yippee.

Click the cover image to go to Amazon and pick up your copy:

A Mortality Tale on Kindle

My third novel, Spawned Secrets, is now available as both an e-book and paperback from Amazon.

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Sometimes I use images that include toys and blocks to create a scene (and let's face it, who doesn't love making a scene). So, in the interests of fair play, as the LEGO® company suggests and requires, here is a legal disclaimer so that everything here is above board and clear:

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